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Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. π
Get the falling fruit app and you'll be able to find fruit trees in your area that are available for picking.
In my city, olives are PROLIFIC and I'm still eating last year's loved that I picked and brined
Hahahaha I had a look and it lists the dumpster out back of Aldi near me.
" Dumpster (edible) Season January - December"
This is actually a great representation of the difference in culture I've seen between the US and visiting a couple places in Europe and particularly Sweden.
I don't know if actual public fruit tree orchards are a thing anywhere, but the general feel of "holy crap they can have nice things in shared spaces here" was everywhere.
I know of a golf course which has orchard trees on it and golfers are allowed to eat as much as they want.
So rich people get free food but not poor people π
Boots theory strikes again
We do have fruit trees in my country and it's even normal for people that live around parks to plant them. Funny enough I've never seen a homeless person taking a fruit, always families.
162 comments and not one about lemon stealing whores.
Not sure if I'm disappointed or just old.
Yes, porn released in 2006 on DVD and uploaded to the internet in 2007 ... You are surely very old ...
I mean, it probably makes them at least 30. Im almost 30 and it feels quite old.
I was working as a private investigator in Hawaii between 1980 and 1988.
Tv show as well I suppose
If you made public fruit trees, someone would try to pick them clean and sell it at a fruit stand 20 miles away.
This happens in low trust societies with scarce resources and even scarcer empathy as the result. Also known as "that's why we cant' have nice things". However, not only it's absolutely not universal, I don't believe it's even the majority
In the Republic, Plato proposed that any citizen could eat fruit from any tree so long as they were sitting underneath the tree that bore the fruit.
This is true and has led to my new system for evaluating economic systems, what does it do with antisocial people.
Capitalism is interesting in that it actually has a plan for them. Let them be greedy little fucks and the system works for a while. Then they fuck everything up and the system collapses, either in a minor correction every couple of years or into fascism.
I would love for something like socialism or communism to work, but thereβs this 1% that would pick the trees clean to better their own lot.
I donβt have any answer, but I have come to the conclusion that every economic and social system should only be considered viable if thereβs a reasonable and compelling solution for what to do with the guy that wants to pick the fruit tree clean.
the anarchist solution is to abolish property, meaning picking the fruit tree clean wouldn't actually give you anything besides a bunch of rotting fruit and others will probably get angry and stop giving you the stuff they make
By having a society with a culture that encourages empathy
Yeah I think the only way around that would be to plant so many trees that the fruit is basically worthless. Probably wouldn't work in places with high population density
Rotting fruit is also a massive problem :) One of my relative had this HUGE fucking pear tree. When it hit pear season, they were begging people to come and take all they could. They would beg food pantries to organize, come and pick.
Canning, freezing, salting, curing, drying, baking ... Aaaaaaaaa there are still more!
Then let's get rid of money.
Well, how do you like them apples?
I like them free
A long time ago I visited Athens in January, it was relatively warm, but those oranges weren't sour as they suppose to be, they were bitter, which I actually love. They are amazing at giving you this jolt of energy when you walk the mountains.
Well, yeah; trees planted from random apple seeds are most likely to bear crabapples. Nobody was going to be eating them.